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Corporate Governance Training and Director Development ‘menu’

Overview of ‘Corporate Governance Training and Director Development menu’

Different organisations have different development requirements at board level, depending on the experience of their directors, their particular sector and their operating environment. Our courses cover all aspects of effective corporate governance training – for private companies, quoted companies, international operations and also non-commercial organisations such as charities. To help narrow down the content of a corporate governance training course / workshop, this menu of modules has been developed to cover all the key issues:

An outline of each corporate governance training module is given below.

Training objectives

Whatever your corporate governance training objectives, taking this flexible menu of optional modules as a starting point will ensure a programme that is as closely tailored to your particular needs as possible.

Audience

All board members (ie, including non-executive directors, chairmen, managing directors and other board members).

Format

Totally flexible. The corporate governance training modules have all been developed as three-hour sessions, but elements from each can be put together to create the corporate governance training course you want: simply indicate the topics of most interest and we will devise a programme accordingly. And if there is anything we have not listed, let us know and we will develop a corporate governance training module just for you.

The expert trainer

Chris is the Chief Executive Officer of a specialist corporate governance consultancy and has extensive experience of corporate governance training. He is a director on a number of boards in the UK and overseas. He is internationally renowned for his work with policy makers, directors and boards in Europe, Asia, Africa, the US and South America. Recent projects that he has led include:

Directing and chairing Global Governance Leadership Programmes for the World Bank in Africa and South Asia.

International corporate governance training and consultancy projects for the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) in Russia, Philippines and Colombia.

Chairing corporate governance training workshops for the Middle East and North Africa for the Global Corporate Governance Forum.

Prior to becoming CEO, he was the Director of Professional Standards and Professional Development at the Institute of Directors (IoD) in the UK. He has also held senior management positions in the Overseas Development Administration, British Airways and Leeds Business School.
Chris has written extensively on corporate governance training, and director & board development issues and regularly speaks at international conferences. His publications include:

Directing your Business

Managing Corporate Relations

The Effective Director: an essential guide to director and board development

Building Director Training Organisations Toolkit

The Handbook of International Corporate Governance

Developing Corporate Governance Codes of Best Practice

His qualifications include an Economics degree, a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education, a Masters degree in Science, a Masters degree in Philosophy and an MBA. He is a Chartered Company Secretary and Administrator, an Executive Fellow of Henley Management College, a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield Management School and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Corporate Governance Training and Director Development ‘menu’

Note: the content of each corporate governance training module as shown here is purely indicative and can be adapted to suit your particular requirements.